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28/06/2008 Drama, Family 1h 54m
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Overview

A family gathers together for a commemorative ritual whose nature only gradually becomes clear.

  1. Hirokazu Kore-eda

    Director

Top billed cast

  1. Hiroshi Abe

    Ryota Yokoyama

  2. Yui Natsukawa

    Yukari Yokoyama

  3. YOU

    Chinami Yokoyama

  4. Kazuya Takahashi

    Nobuo Kataoka

  5. Shohei Tanaka

    Atsushi Yokoyama

  6. Hotaru Nomoto

    Satsuki Kataoka

  7. Ryôga Hayashi

    Mutsu Kataoka

  8. Susumu Terajima

    Sushi Deliverer

  9. Kirin Kiki

    Toshiko Yokoyama

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf
Written by CinemaSerf on 2022-12-25
At times I felt quite uncomfortable watching this film. It is set in the home of an elderly couple whose grown up son and daughter - and their own respective families - are coming for a reunion dinner in order to commemorate the drowning of their eldest son some years earlier when he was a youth. Whilst there is the traditional deference you'd expect from children to parents, it soon becomes clear that the mother - especially - is no stickler for protocol, and her questioning of her son and his wife (whose own relationship is at times quite strained) about their own baby plans soon leads us to...read the rest
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